Description
This scholarly translation brings together the fragmentary accounts of Ktesias of Knidos, a Greek historian and physician who lived in the 5th century BCE and spent time in the Persian court. His original work, the “Indika,” provided one of the earliest Greek descriptions of ancient India, but survives only through the abridgement made by the Byzantine scholar Photios and citations in other classical writers.
The compilation offers invaluable insights into ancient Indian society, customs, geography, and trade as understood and recorded by Greek observers of antiquity. Readers will discover how classical writers portrayed Indian kingdoms, their populations, and their interactions with the Persian Empire. This historical document serves as both a primary source for understanding ancient India and a testament to the cross-cultural knowledge exchanges of the ancient world.
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